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Originally Posted by sirtalis
Feeding in a separate enclosure is just extra stress for the snake
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I agree with this, although not everyone will. What I do to solve the problem is this: No interaction when feeding, I stay out of sight and quickly put in the mouse and hopefully the snake never sees me and I don't see him in the process. I hang back and make sure the feeding begins and then leave them alone.
When I approach the cage to handle a snake, I do it not when they are in their hides or balled up, I usually do it when they are stretched out. Fully open the tank and make my presence very known to them, not rooting them out from under a hide and making them feel threatened.
In this way I have learned that rat snakes at least, will get the gist of 'this is feed time' and 'this is not feed time', the kingsnakes I have had also seemed to take to this. The rest I have had were either so docile that it didn't matter, or so aggressive that I wasn't handling them. Hope that helps to give some alternative to a feeding tank.
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